Famous quotes containing the words natural, minor and/or scale:
“Many people operate under the assumption that since parenting is a natural adult function, we should instinctively know how to do itand do it well. The truth is, effective parenting requires study and practice like any other skilled profession. Who would even consider turning an untrained surgeon loose in an operating room? Yet we operate on our children every day.”
—Louise Hart (20th century)
“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (18531917)
“I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligencethis may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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